Welcome!
I am an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, since January 2022. My research focuses on the intersection of democratic theory with constitutional and electoral politics. It is problem-driven and examines questions of political representation, democratic exclusion, voting rights, political parties, and populism, with more specific focus on topics such militant democracy, compulsory voting, sortition, ostracism, and lately also democratic secession. I am also deeply interested in the history of political thought (mainly 19th and 20th century) and ancient Greek democratic thinking.
In 2020-21, I was Associate Professor at Lund University, and in 2017-20 I taught part-time at the Hellenic Open University. In addition, I have held a Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University (2019), a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2014-16), and an Erik Allard Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (2012). In 2018, I was offered a Fullbright-Schuman Award, and was also appointed visiting Fellow at the 'Engaging Vulnerability' Program. I earned my PhD from the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought at the University of Jyväskylä in 2011, and in 2018, I was awarded a qualification as Docent from Uppsala University.
In 2015, I published my first monograph combining political thought and voting ethics, The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe: Democracy's Duty? (Routledge). The book examines the contemporary discourse on mandatory voting in light of the debates in 19th and 20th century France, and argues that high voter turnout has been historically seen, among other, as an institutional barrier to extremist parties. My upcoming book is a study of contemporary democratic theory and extremism. Titled Theories of Democratic Self-Defence, it focuses on the norms of exclusion, toleration and integration that drive the primary approaches to dealing with far-right parties. The book is currently under contract with Oxford University Press and has been awarded the York Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award in 2022.
I have also published peer-reviewed articles in political-science journals (International Political Science Review, Political Studies, Comparative European Politics, Australian Journal of Political Science), political-theory journals (Constellations, Redescriptions, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy), and journals of law and history of ideas (European Constitutional Law Review, History of European Ideas, History of Political Thought).
Volumes that I have co-edited include Militant Democracy and its Critics (with Alexander Kirshner, 2019), Equal Representation (with Lisa Hill, 2016) and Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change (with Kari Palonen, 2011).
Since 2016, I am in the editorial team of Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory and steering committee member of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Concepts.
I have taught courses in political theory and democratic politics both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Lund, Uppsala and Jyväskylä, and currently supervise two PhD students. Places that I have visited as a lecturer include Adelaide, Rome, Helsinki, Dublin, Berlin and Athens.
I live in Uppsala with my spouse, Josep Soler, who is a socio-linguist at Stockholm University. We have two children, Orestis (b.2017) and Maya (b.2021).
Here you can find my personal profile at Uppsala University and Lund University, and below a detailed CV.
In 2020-21, I was Associate Professor at Lund University, and in 2017-20 I taught part-time at the Hellenic Open University. In addition, I have held a Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University (2019), a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2014-16), and an Erik Allard Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (2012). In 2018, I was offered a Fullbright-Schuman Award, and was also appointed visiting Fellow at the 'Engaging Vulnerability' Program. I earned my PhD from the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought at the University of Jyväskylä in 2011, and in 2018, I was awarded a qualification as Docent from Uppsala University.
In 2015, I published my first monograph combining political thought and voting ethics, The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe: Democracy's Duty? (Routledge). The book examines the contemporary discourse on mandatory voting in light of the debates in 19th and 20th century France, and argues that high voter turnout has been historically seen, among other, as an institutional barrier to extremist parties. My upcoming book is a study of contemporary democratic theory and extremism. Titled Theories of Democratic Self-Defence, it focuses on the norms of exclusion, toleration and integration that drive the primary approaches to dealing with far-right parties. The book is currently under contract with Oxford University Press and has been awarded the York Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award in 2022.
I have also published peer-reviewed articles in political-science journals (International Political Science Review, Political Studies, Comparative European Politics, Australian Journal of Political Science), political-theory journals (Constellations, Redescriptions, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy), and journals of law and history of ideas (European Constitutional Law Review, History of European Ideas, History of Political Thought).
Volumes that I have co-edited include Militant Democracy and its Critics (with Alexander Kirshner, 2019), Equal Representation (with Lisa Hill, 2016) and Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change (with Kari Palonen, 2011).
Since 2016, I am in the editorial team of Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory and steering committee member of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Concepts.
I have taught courses in political theory and democratic politics both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Lund, Uppsala and Jyväskylä, and currently supervise two PhD students. Places that I have visited as a lecturer include Adelaide, Rome, Helsinki, Dublin, Berlin and Athens.
I live in Uppsala with my spouse, Josep Soler, who is a socio-linguist at Stockholm University. We have two children, Orestis (b.2017) and Maya (b.2021).
Here you can find my personal profile at Uppsala University and Lund University, and below a detailed CV.
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